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Oregon Emerald VOL. 20 EUGENE, OREGON, TUESDAY EVENING, APRIL 22, 1919 NO. 68 STATE PUBLISHERS TO BE GUESTS AT DNIVERSITY FRIDAY Fifty or Sixty Expected on Cam pus for Newspaper Conference TWO SESSIONS ARRANGED Printing and Advertising to be Topics; Lunch and Banquet Set for Visitors Colin V. Dyment, formerly professor of journalism at the University, will be one of the big figures on the pro gram of the first annual Oregon newspaper conference to be held on the campus April 25 and 26. Mr. Dyment, as a Bed Cross searcher in France and Belgium pulled off the biggest hit of journalistic enterprize on the western front by getting the names and iden tifications and the story now running in the Portland Oregonian, of how every man in the 91st division who was killed, came to his death. While the regular sessions of the conference will be devoted to the busi ness and mechanical sides of the news paper profession there will be lots of life, sparkling addresses, a little music and a whole lot of good fellowship. There will be two banquets, one given by the chamber of. commerce at the club rooms on Friday evening and the other by the Hendricks Hall girls, Friday noon. Dr. Campbell to Speak The toast master at the Friday evening banquet will be Dr. P. L. Campbell, president of the University and himself formerly a reporter on the Kansas City Star in the early days of Colonel William K. Nelson. C. E. Ingalls of Corvallis, president of both the Willamette Valley and the Oregon State Editorial associations and E. E. Brodie of Oregon City, former presi dent of the state association will be among the speakers. The Friday afternoon session will be devoted to advertising and the Saturday morning session to printing. The social end of the conference will be, to a considerable extent, in the hands of the women’s auxiliary of the Eugene chamber of commerce whose members will help entertain the wives of the visiting men during the busi ness sessions, which they may not care to attend. Program for Banquet ‘ The program at the Chamber of Com merce banquet will be; Toastmaster, Dr. P. L. Campbell who edits and manages the University of Oregon and who is always reminded of a story. Welcome to our fair city,1 E. C. Simmons, president of the Chamber of Commerce, who is a good circulation man, if you can judge by the way he circulates. Thank you, C. E. Ingalls, president of most everything, who tries hard, but who just can’t forget Kansas and the G. O. P. The traveling convention next sum mer, E. E. Brodie, who is going to see that the Pacific coast gets her rights in the way of national publicity from next August on. Some really bright editors, Miss Erma Zimmerman, student, who edited the last number of Oregon Exchahges, will take this opportunity of telling what papers in Oregon are worth at tacking with the shears, and why. She says she will name names. Reporting on No Man’s land and getting the names right; what my newspaper training means to me there, Colin V. Dyment, who pulled off the biggest journalistic stunt on the west ern front. Thirty, Lloyd Riches (though maybe he’s only about 27), secretary of the State Editorial association, just back from the wars. Fifty Expected to Attend Replies already received to the invi-, tations sent out by Dean Allen indicate that not fewer than fifty will attend the conference. Of the replies thus (Continued on Page Three) Col. Leader Makes New Record and Has Time to Figure It Colonel John Leader and his Bill are always making records, of some sort, but this story is not about Bill. It would have been, the only reason, he wasn’t there, was that he wasn’t al lowed. If Bill had been there, but he wasn’t. One of the saddest things about Colonel Leader’s taking trips is that he has to leave his dog behind. He had been tempted to smuggle him along but the colonel can down tempta tion. You see, Colonel Leader has just returned from another of his long trips. When he is on the rampus he is always kept so busy that he doesn’t have much time for statistics, but on his long train trips and sleepness nights, when he doesn’t have Bill around he has time to think things out. He has discovered that in the last three months he has spoken 41 times. If he had been traveling all of this time, he wouldn’t have thought much of this record, but he has made only a few trips. The way it happens is that the Colonel is so popular that wherever he goes he always has to make more than his scheduled speeches before he leaves, speaking at least three times in one day. And then, wherever he goes there are luncheons and dinners in his honor and he must be the principal speaker and so it goes. Him BOWEN WILL LEAVE OREGON R. O. T. C. Commandant Gets Word He Will Soon be Re leased from Service Word that Colonel W. H. C. Bowen, who has been in command of the R. O. T. C. since January, and of the S. A. T. C. at* the University last fall, and was assistant to Colonel John Leader during the two officers ’ training camps conducted here last summer, is expect ing order for his release from the ser vice, was received on the campus yes terday. Colonel Bowen received the communication from Washington Sun day stating that the orders would reach him in the near future, as all former retired officers in the United States army, who re-entered the service dur ing the war, are being relieved and re placed by returned active officers. Colonel Bowen entered the army in 1876 and retired in 1914, after having had eight years’ service in the Philip pines to his credit, which is more than any other Colonel in the army has had in the islands. He was appointed from civil life by General Grant, in Omaha, Nebraska. He first served at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, then was sent to Fort Reno, Oklahoma, which was at that time In dian Territory. He was with the 5th infantry and was promoted from second lieutenant to lieutenant colonel after serving for two years through the In dian campaigns in Montana and Da kota. He was in Cuba for one year and i in 1900 was sent to the Philippines where he was appointed the first civil j governor of the Province of Abra. In j 1909 he was made a Colonel in the: 12th infantry and returned to the Uni ted States in 1912 and was command ing officer at Monterey and the Pre- j sidio until 1914, when he was retired and became commandant of the vet erans ’ home in California, for two years. Colonel Bowen will remain in Eu gene with his family until the close of the college year in order that his daughter, Miss Gwladys Bowen may complete her studies at the University. Then they will return to the home in San Francisco. Word has not yet been received as to who will take Colonel Bowen’s place with the R. O. T. C. but it is expected that Lieutenant Colonel Baird, as the next senior officer in command, will be appointed his successor. BOOK ADDED TO MEMORIAL M. E. Schwarzschild, of Schwarzs ehild’s book store, has contributed to the Pauline Potter Homer Memorial, a copy of two volumes of Percy’s ‘ ‘ Reliques of Ancient Poetry. ’ ’ m CLEARED FOB WIEN’S BUILDING IN COLLEGE NEAR Colonial Assembly and Frolic Double Returns of Any Previous Year It was found that Women’s League had cleared $500 this year for the Women’s building when a financial re port for the colonial assembly and April Frolic was submitted to the executive board yesterday afternoon at the bun galow. This is more than double the i amount raised by this organization in any previous year. With all coitumes, rentals and other expenses paid, $144.52 was cleared on the colonial assembly, according to Mellie Parker, manager of the fete. This amount is to be turned directly over to L. H. Johnson at the business office. The secretary of the league, Reba Macklin, announced that $67.60 profit was made from April Frolic; and this too goes into the big fund. A committee to arrange for the cam j>us luncheon at junior week-end will also be announced today. In the absence of Harriet Garrett, who was ill, Dorothy Flegel, past pres ident of the league, who is visiting the campus, conducted the executive meet ing. COTE TO SING AT PORTLAND Will Appear Before McDowell Club in Recital April 29 Arthur Faguy-Cote,' baritone, will sing for the McDowell club in Port land next Tuesday evening, April 29. His ifirst two numbers “On Wings of Song ’ ’ and 1 ‘ Has Sorrow Thy Young Days Shaded?” are the ones which so delighted his Eugene audience last Thursday at the Y. M. C. A. hut. He will be accompanied by Mrs. Arthur Faguy-Cote. The program for the Portland con cert is as follows: I (a) On Wings of Song....Mendelssohn (b) Romance “Jaconde” . . Nicolo-Isouard (1814) (c) Has Sorrow Thy Young Days Shaded? .Old Irish II Prologue “I Pageliacci”.. Leoncavallo III (a) J’ai Tant de Choses a Vous Dire . C. Ferrari (b) En Sourdine .Rinaldo Hahn (c) Mandiline :. Debussy (d) L’Invitation au Voyage ....Duparc IV (a) At The Ball .Tchaikowsky (b) Don Juan’s Serenade . . Tchaikowski (c) Fog Wraiths . . John Alden Carpenter (d) The Star . James H. Rogers (c) To a Messenger ..Frank La Forge AMBULANCE BOYS ARRIVE Plans for Big Reception in Eugene are Under Way The ambulance unit which served dur ing the war as the 361st Ambulance company with the 91st division, has ar rived in port according to telegrams re ceived Sunday by many of the parents of the boys. The unit returns intact except the leader, Captain John Eberle Kuyken dall, ’08, of the University, who after leading his men safely through the Argonne drive, succumbed to disease while at the port waiting for transpor tation home. The ambulanse company was organ ized by Captain Kuykendall as essen tially a University of Oregon unit and many of the University men joined the company. Telegrams were received Sunday from Ian Campbell, Charles Huggins, Glen Hunter, Harold Jenkins, Thomas Campbell, Harry F. Bailey, John H. Bevtein, Dan Fisher, Albert Campbell, Orville Dean, Bert King, Lester El blom, Charles Warnock, Ray Bower and Charles Morgenson. Details of the big reception are al ready under way and it is hoped to learn definitely the exact time of the arrival of the boys from Camp Lewis. It is presumed that they are now on their way across the continent. OHM TO SPEAK ON WESTERN MEN Journalist-Red Cross Officer Will Tell in Assembly of Heroes’ Deaths Western Men at the Arngonne” is the subject on which Colin V. Dyment will speak at the assembly on Wednes day morning, at 10 o’clock, in Villard hall. This was the announcement made in a letter received from him at the President's office. Mr. Dyment who is now the head of the journalism school at the University of Washing ton, recently returned with the 01st division with which he was attached as a Red Cross searcher. His talk will be especially interest ing, according to Karl Onthauk, secre tary to the President, because of his wide acquaintance with the western men through his work at both the Uni versities of Oregon where he was an instructor in the Sehool of Journal ism, and Washington. Many men from these colleges were in the 91st and the speaker will have intimate tales of their army life to toll. As the author of a story of the 91st division, Mr. Dyment has gained a great deal of recognition. The story has been running in several of the northwest papers, and gives the com plete details of the deaths of western men who were killed in service. Mr. Dyment will come to the campus on Tuesday afternoon or evening and will stop over in Portland on the way here to fill an engagement made for him by the Red Cross there to meet the relatives of those men who were killed in service, and give them any details of their death that he may haye. He hopes to be able to remain over for the first Oregon Newspaper Con ference that will be held on the campus the last of the week, when he is sched uled to teil of the history he has written. SEABECK TO BE DISCUSSED Girls Interested in Summer Session at Seaside Will Meet Girls, aren’t you sorry that you did not go to Seabeck last year? Then you could go to the picnic which the girls who have gone to Seabeck and those who are interested in going this year are going to have tomorrow night when they first meet at the Bungalow at 6 o’clock, and then hike off some place and have a “weenie” roast. Judging from the girls who went last year and the number who are planning on going this year, the affair ought to be “some peppy,” as Essie Maguire, Y. W. C. A. Seabeck chairman would say. REGISTRATION PLAN UP Questionnaire to Faculty Asks Com parlson of Old and New Systems The faculty committee on registra tion has sent a questionnaire to the various professors asking them their preference in regard to registration systems. The desirability of the old system whereby the students secured the signatures of all their professors before registering in a new class as opposed to the ew system whereby the students make out class record cards and the registrar sends them to the professors who do not know the number of students registering in their courses is the mooted question. Under the new system the students were saved innumerable jaunts back 1 and forth between buildings hunting for professors to sign their cards; ; while at the same time the professors do not get their records completed for two or three weeks after the beginning of a new term because the students cards do not come in and under the University rules a student is not sup posed to be recognized in a class until he is duly registered therein. The questionnaire sent to the faculty asks their opinion of the speed, the advisability, the objections to both sys tems and any improvements to be inadf in either system to make it more practical. K. K. K. Press Agent Just Wild About Show; Raves On The persistent publicity man says, in part: “Just four more days until Satur day and the big K. K. K.. Those mys tic letters stand for Kollege Kids Kar nival, and believe me, brother, that’s what she's going to be. A Karnival spelt with a capital K—an occasion which will spoel joy for every Oregon man and woman. “Plans for the big affair are being well worked out this week by commit tees composed of Order of the O men. Every organization on the campus is arranging a side show for a part of the Karnival which will be given in the men’s gymnasium, and judging from reports they are going to be stunts of a mysterious, sensational and daring nature. Also a committee composed of Stan Anderson and Carter Brandon is running up the electric light bills at their respective houses, oy sitting up all night planning the features of the big prize Karnival dance in tho wom en 's gymnasium during the evening. Tho prize will probably consist of a nicely polished brick which will be used as the corner stone for the new women's building. Perk up, you artists of the polished floor and get out after the new prize.” The press agent, being now thorough ly warmed up, rhapsodizes on, as fol lows, insisting on big type: ‘ ‘ The big carnival will last for but one day—Saturday evening, April 26. It will absolutely be the greatest col lection of wonders ever gathered to gether under one roof. SENSATIONAL! DARING! MYSTIFYING! “Don’t fail to see: The sensational Aerial Novelties. Muriel, the Marvelous, Mastodonic Hysterical Movie Manipu lator. The amwdng, artistic Acrobatic Atrocities. Winnie, the Wild Woman, captured in the Jungles of Corvallis. Bouncing Bill and his Bounding Bluf ferous Boob Boys. “Curious, captivating chorus charms will romp for the approval of the spec tators. An evening of hilarious, side splitting, riotous mirth. Also present ing for the first time in America, PreScott’s Premier, Posterures in Posi tively, Paralyzing Poses. ‘ ‘ Remember the date and look for more next Thursday,’’ he says, in ex hausted conclusion. CONCERT AND DANCE Difficult, Interesting Program To Be Offered at Armory Friday Evening The Men’s Band is going to give the students and towns people a rare treat in the form of a band concert and dance in the Armory next Friday evening April 25, at 8 p. in. It will offer an unusually difficult and interesting progj-am; some of the selections are played by Sousa’s and other famous bands. The music for the (lance, furnished by the band, will be the very latest “jazz” full of life and ‘ ‘ pep, ’ ’ according to Albert Per fect, director. This is the fourth year for the Uni versity band and never before has it undertaken to produce such a concert. Mr. perfect hopes that everyone will do his part to support the organization. Success depends a great deal upon the support of the students. He says this is a chance for the students to all give it a boost in that direction. Hereafter the band will play for military drill. The State Editors, who will be here this week have been invited to the concert as guests of the band. Tickets may be bought from any member, of the band and from Mr. Perfect himself. They will be 25 cents for concert and 25 cents for the dance after. SCROLL AND SCRIPT INITIATES . Scroll and Script, senior honor society for women, held initiation Saturday afternoon at 4 o ’clock in Dean Louise Ehrman’s office, for Lois Laughlin and Mrs. Katherine Johnson. Track Meet Transferred from Eu gene—Tryouts Set for Next Saturday ACTIVE SEASON IS NEAB Athletes to Compete Each Week End—Men Improve Fast Good Weather OREGON TRACK SCHEDULE April 26—Varsity tryouts on Kin caid field. May 3—Multnomah-Oregon Meet in Portland. May 9—O. A. C.-Oregon Meet in Eugene. May 10—State Interscholastic Track Meet in Eugene. May 17—University of Washington Oregon Meet in Eugene. May 24 — Northwest Conference Meet at Pullman. May 31—Pacific Coast Conference Meet at Seattle. The date for the dual meet between Multnomah and Oregon has been defi nitely set for May 3, at Portland. This puts an end to the rumor that the track meet would be staged here. Multnomah has an aggregation of stars to run against “Bill” Hayward’s squad, and will provide a lot of good experience for the Oregon men. The hopes of Oregon’s winning the meet are rather slim, but some of the wearers of the green may spring a surprise in the Portland meet. This Saturday Kincaid field will be the scene of another tryout meet. Every man entered for any event will compete against all others who are out for that event. 'Tins means quite a lively after noon for most of the men. After the Multnomah meet the var sity team will have one meet every week-end until the close of the sea son, May 31. The O. A. C. meet fol lows the Portland meet and will be one of the features of junior week-end. The week following that Washington comes to Eugene for a dual meet, and then on the following week-ends the North west conference meet at Pullman and the Pacific coast conference meet at Seattle will be held. Good Weather Helps The improvement in the weather has helped a great deal in the work of the track men. Every evening finds the field alive with white-suited athletes cavorting about the track, while “Bill” Hayward keeps his eye on every one and gives a word or two of advice where needed. The tryouts Saturday will probably determine the final varsity team. The freshmen team may also be picked at that time. In many respects the freeh inen will have a better balanced team than the varsity, and track fans expect several freshmen to romp home winners in the Saturday tryouts. Several of the varsity men seein not to be putting their best into the work lately, thinks Hayward. Lots of the men are holding back in their work, he said, “and I cannot understand it.” He looks for a better showing now, however, as the meets are so elose, and the weather has been improving lately. Dow Wilson Out Again “How” Wilson is again out for track, and he has added much hope to the rest of the men out. Wilson proved to be a good man in the Columbia meet in Portland. 0. A. C. had the advantage of a large covered armory in which to work out during the bad weather of the last week or two, but now the weather man has given Oregon a chance. Under the present conditions, the team ought to be improving daily, and according to those who are out watching the pro gress of the team from the bleachers, it is making up lost ground.